Rutgers team heads to Antarctica

Documentary planned on efforts of professor making his 12th trip

11:01 PM,
Dec. 25, 2012

Dena Seidel (left) director of the Rutgers Center for Digital Filmmaking, looks over equipment bound for an expedition to Antarctica with media director Rachel Kurzynowski of Toms River and production coordinator Ryan Joseph of Jersey City.

Written by

Kirk Moore
@KirkMooreAPP

In 11 trips to Antarctica over the years, Rutgers University Professor Oscar Schofield has witnessed changes in what he calls "the fastest-warming place on Earth" - fewer penguins, changing glaciers, new mosses and plants.

Then two months ago, Schofield's climate-change work followed him home and into his basement, when superstorm Sandy's surge swamped the streets around his Bay Head condominium. A few weeks after getting heat and hot water back on at home, he is leaving after Christmas for his 12th expedition in the Southern Ocean.